Content Author

A person who creates, edits, and publishes content on a website or digital platform, typically using a content management system rather than writing code directly. Content authors are responsible for many accessibility-critical decisions including writing alternative text for images, structuring headings properly, creating meaningful link text, and ensuring tables have appropriate headers. The W3C's Accessibility Roles and Responsibility Mapping (ARRM) framework recognizes content authors as having distinct accessibility responsibilities separate from those of developers and designers.